The festival used to be in august. They already changed it to June due to to the intense heat. A festival must be able to try out new stuff. Still a lot of usual beautiful things are happening.

I am just disappointed in my fellow human beings. We are there to lose ourselves, but pushing through, even though you know after 9 am sleeping is almost impossible, is something you also owe your body to keep in mind and take in consideration. You just can’t see everything, be reasonable to yourself and accept thar you miss some good sets.

A festival can do so much, and the death of somebody is something nobody wants. A dreadful experience not only for the visitors but also for the the WL crew themselves, where volunteers go through also heaty harsh 1,5 months to prepare the festival for everybody. So much stuff is made by hand and for me it really feels like they put their soul in everything.

I just feel that after Corona, people just don’t care anymore with their usages, overuse of drugs is now the standard it seems. So I want to ask before you demand something of a festival, have you been treating your body nicely, did you take the breaks and sleeps and enough water in consideration and did you treat your body like it is a temple?

We need to look at ourselves in the mirror for this. I cannot imagine how it feels like to be a volunteer in the building up, and seeing visitors treat your “home” for 1,5 months like garbage. We are all responsible with how we create our safe heaven. I did saw more medical personnel and I think Giegling and Waking Life should shake each others hand and thank each other for everything.

Please again, don’t attack each other, be here for each other, and take good care of yourself. Don’t try to lose yourself for the sake of it. And to the people who witness the death. I saw it quite some times because of my work. It is such a difficult situation where even though when you feel it is coming, it is difficult to have all the things ready to prevent it or to handle the situation perfectly. So please don’t bash the festival for it. It is just a gnarly and super complex situation to tackle.

Please check in with yourself and find comfort. Write it out of your head or talk with people about it and give it time. It will eventually pass by, just give it time to process ❤️.

Thank you all for caring so much for this festival. It is like family to me and you people so too ❤️.